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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). annual GMV. SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. So I hustled around and convinced a new investor to put in $18 million. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. However, this has not been borne out by recent evidence ( Bernard, 2001 , Boyarski et al.,

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Transcript of Want to Be Like Amazon?

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And I know the first thing people are going to say is that of course I’m not worried about losing because the stock market is basically funding their growth, they’re not profitable blah blah and I hear that all the time. They’ve been profitable since 2001.

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